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Forum: Mercury - Gemini - Apollo
Topic: The smell of moondust (spent gunpowder)

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Message to Edit: HTML is ON UBB Code is ON Smilies Legend	Originally posted by YankeeClipper on 04-18-2017 01:22 PM This is an excerpt from The Sunday Times Magazine [URL=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2017-04-09/the-sunday-times-magazine/return-of-the-rocket-men-jbg0wmvhp]interview[/URL] with Buzz Aldrin, Charlie Duke, and Harrison Schmitt published on Sunday 09 April 2017:<blockquote>[i]Aldrin was struck by the fineness of the regolith dust. “Like talcum powder. That’s why I took one of the few photos on the moon of the iconic boot print.” The dust also got to Duke. He noticed, back inside the lander, that when you rubbed it between your fingers, it felt “oily, like graphite”. He also said it smelt like gunpowder. Other walkers have said the same thing. But when transported back to Earth, it seemed to lose this smell. So does the moon smell? Well, it is possible the regolith emitted an odour on contact with the oxygen in the lander — so maybe yes, the moon smells of gunpowder.[/i]</blockquote>
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